The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-07-14
Pulled Out Of the Ground.

Pulled Out Of the Ground.
One can imagine the excitement and
anxiety of the parents of the little one
who experienced the thrilling adventure
and escape related below,-and their
solemn resolve when it was almost to
late) never again to leave deep hole
uncovered for child to fall in. The
trick of lifting little children by their
heads, which is thought funny by some
mistaken people, is only iustitiable as
a last resort in peril, as here,-and
the man who performed it so patiently
and skilfully and saved a young life IS
worthy OF all praise. 4 farmer near
Ihamesville, Ont, in endeavoring to
procure water, drilled at several points
holes in tho ground foot in diameter
and of various depths, filling each up
before another was commenced, as soon
as it was evident that water was not
there.
The last one drilled was sunk fifty
feet. Into this hole came water, and
after time 1t was partly filled with
water and mud, the latter reduced to
soft consistency by the former.
The family had little two-year-old
boy playing about the dooryards, but
suddenly the baby was missed. Calling
him and hunting for him proved futile,
until the father thought of the hole
twelve inches in diameter.
As a last resort, without really think
ing the child was there, he looked into
the hole, hut of course could see moth
ing. While doing so, however, no
thought he heard the childs voice, and
after several moments of anxious listen
ing, became satisfied that he was at
the bottom, at least twenty five feet
below the surface, In space of such
small circumference that the possibility
of rescue was problem.
The neighbors were appealed to for
suggestions. Among others it was pro-
posed to dig down to ths little one. but
it would take two or three days, said
one. and the child might die meantime,
while another called attention to the
prospect of smothering or killing the
child by clods falling upon him.
Finally colored man came up, aud
was informed of the catastrophe
and dilemma. He asked for mirror,
and holding it above the hole, gazed in
to it and saw the reflection of the child
at the bottom. From the baby's posi-
ton, he had evidently stepped into the
hole, and with his clothing had filled it
so full as to sink gradually, the air be-
low offering resistance enough to pre-
vent any iniuriously swift descent
The colored man next asked for
rope, on the end of which he made a
loop large enough to go over the child's
head. Then he procured wooden strips
which he fastened strongly together,
until he had one strip twenty five feet
or more in length. He dropped the
rope down the hole and lowered the
wooden strip.
While another person held the mir
ror above, the colored man knelt by
the opening, and taking bis bearings by
frequent observations in the mirror,
worked faithfully to place the loop over
the head of the little one.
Meanwhile physician had been sent
for, that he might be at hand in case Of
need. The colorcd man tried again and
again to get the loop over the back of
the child's mead and around under his
nose. The pressure against his nose
caused the little ono to throw his head
back as far as possible, thus bringing
the weight principally on the back of
the head, and in this position he was
pulled up to the surface. The doctor
examined him and found him little the
worse for his remarkable experience,
and he was then returned to his over
ioyed parents and a proper guard placed
about the mouth of the hole.
Honlc-Made Refrigerator.
A homemade refrigerator does not
cost much beyond q little work, says
a writer in the Inter Ocean, and will
soon pay for the expense connected
with it by the amount of food pre-
served from waste. Any one who can
get ice regularly should manage to
have O refrigerator ofsome kind. One
that worked we'll was made as follows:
Two good stout dry goods boxes We're
procured, one three or four inches
smaller than the other. Some saw
dust was spread on the bottom of the
larger box, and the smaller one placed
upon it. At either end bore holes
three, quarters OF an inch in diameter
through both boxes and insert roll
OF stiff pasteboard in them for venti-
lators Fit lids tn the ton Of each